Not just the Tribe. The State Park sits on what atlas used to be to primary steelhead spawning area of the Mashel, which was a key area for the watershed. WDFW was also working to limit access, at least during spawning and would probably have been concerned about fishing and other in stream activities in that reach.

Thanks for the information.
I honestly have no clue but will never forget some of the experiences there that I lived as a kid. God stuff.

if you actually floated a drift boat from the mouth of the mashelle then you should know that you could go around the diversion dam that is located on Wilcox farmland by usuing the old boat trailer that was left there so you could hand load your boat then pull it over a hundred yards around the diversion dam, if you didn't know that then you never floated it. and there were mass sleds back then too and the NDN's did F up that river with their nets.

What????
The internet wizards don't know what they are talking about???

Imagine that.

I'm not really sure what your point is, or if you were referring to my post, but here goes:

The trailer at the diversion dam got to be a useless pos through the years and it became easier to just drag around the dam on the rocks. It was some work to drag a driftboat around it, but definitely do-able.

I never saw or heard of anyone dragging a sled around the dam (maybe some did? -hopefully a very small sled), but I wouldn't try it, personally. And wasn't the post about sleds?

My only point was the earlier post had to have mentioned the wrong bridge. A run in a sled from "the tank bridge" (just above the reservation) to the "high dam" (Lagrand) would be a pretty bad-ass endeavor, especially including the 100 yard drag around the diversion dam (which you'd have to do twice). And some people might actually call it foolish- not only because of the miles involved- but considering there were usable launches on both sides.
But since some people are "wizards", I'm sure you pulled it off.

I hope you're proved wrong too; the Elwha has a special place in my heart. Crossing fingers on this one.

"But since some people are "wizards", I'm sure you pulled it off."
Believe it or not it didn't take a Wizard to fish the upper Nisqually from a sled.

Sorry the young bucks missed out on the real WA fishery.
They will never get to see the gem things once were around here.
I would recommend they immediately take a trip to remote Alaska so they can see how it once was around here.
Hell Kennedy creek use to be better steelhead fishing than most of today's rivers.


The libatards have sucked the government tut while doing nothing but cashing Uncle Sam's checks.
Now they all want to pretend they are the conservationist who will save it.
WA is ruined.
Get over it.

yeah. good points.

fu.ck man